meaning of conflict
1. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
2. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
3. To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
4. To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
5. To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
6. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real
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